“Apple has introduced a range of improvements within Safari on both OS X and iOS that mean the multi-platform browser is catching up with Chrome for performance,” Jonny Evans reports for Computerworld.
“In one key addition, Apple has at last included tools to help developers optimize sites for the Safari browser, Navigation Timing API. Support for this was introduced in the fourth Safari beat for OS X and iOS 8 last week,” Evans reports. “Inclusion of the tool is a big deal if you want a faster browsing experience — it allows developers to optimize their sites to work faster with Safari and is already supported by Chrome and Firefox.”
“Web developers will now be able to optimize sites for Safari, as they’ll be equipped with real-time data to help them identify and repair any problems on their sites,” Evans reports. “‘The effect will have an especially big impact when looking at mobile users, as Apple’s combined presence across smartphones and tablets means that Safari comprised a whopping 59.1% of mobile browser traffic as of April of this year,’ writes Catchpoint Web performance engineer, Leo Vasiliou.”
Read more in the full article here.
Chrome is my winter browser. It wastes so much battery that I only use it when I need some extra heating.
Agreed. It’s a CPU hog. I don’t have it installed anymore after Little Snitch started reporting lots of phone home requests from daemons installed in my /System/Library folder.
Does Chrome still install these daemons?
After experience on my older Mac I will. to touch Chrome. As you say it constantly wants to phone home and even though I know longer using it and tried to extract all Google shit from my computer Little Snitch still reports its antics. And of course no matter how ofter you tell it to permenently reject such requests Google deliberately includes work a rounds to make it persist. Hate that company.
Chromium is Chrome minus the Google Phone Home crap. White Hat Aviator is a browser built upon Chrome, but designed for security and privacy. Both are free.
Chrome is larded with Google crap so that they can sell you better.
Epic browser
need i say more?
BEWARE using Chromium: Do NOT sign into Google.
If you sign into Google, you’re being tracked. It’s also a good idea to use some kind of tool to control your browser cookies in order to block and dump tracking cookies in Chromium, in addition to the control inside the Preferences.
Thanks for the tip on White Hat Aviator, which I will check out.
OMG, here it comes again… Every time Apple touches an application, I know, they will disable or modify my way of using it. Once I used to navigate to bookmarks, opened and last address highlighted on keyboard. No more. As a high professionally user, Logic X is a completely nightmare. It’s always this way. Even Limbaugh pleaded. Why they do that?
One of the changes the current Public Beta includes is the removal of the easy ability to see the certificate of a secure website. In the current Safari browser, clicking in the highlighted box on the web address opens a window showing the certificate information. For some reason developers at Apple have removed that from Safari on the Public Beta which is incomprehensibly stupid.